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James Adams

James Adams

Agrees with the Tomatometer 84% of the time.

Biography:
Film Critic, Globe and Mail
Publications:
Globe and Mail
Total Reviews:
64

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3/4 —— Invisible City () " If there is a flaw cinematically to Invisible City it's the very evenhandedness that is the film's virtue." — Globe and Mail
Posted Feb 5, 2010
3/4 —— Crab Trap () " A glacially paced spellbinder about the mostly black residents of La Barra, a destitute, isolated village on Colombia's Pacific coast where the fishery's gone bust and the only economic hope is a madcap scheme by a local landowner to build a beach resort." — Globe and Mail
Posted Sep 11, 2009
3/4 88% Fifty Dead Men Walking (2008) " It's a pretty fine film, thanks largely to the performances (and look) of its crackerjack cast, as well as Jonathan Freeman's restless, gritty cinematography and a lickety-split script." — Globe and Mail
Posted Jul 31, 2009
3/4 85% Soul Power (2009) " A non-stop head-bobbing knee-bouncer." — Globe and Mail
Posted Jul 24, 2009
3/4 97% The Hurt Locker (2009) " Bigelow and cinematographer Barry Ackroyd crank up the tension to nail-biting, gut-churning extremes and the mayhem is powerfully visceral." — Globe and Mail
Posted Oct 18, 2008
3/4 88% Metallica - Some Kind of Monster (2004) " It's less rockumentary and more exploration of, and meditation on long-term relationships, creativity and maturity, the value of the 'talking cure' and the quest for personal authenticity in a matrix of family demands, peer pressure and corporate greed." — Globe and Mail
Posted Jul 16, 2004
3/4 93% Super Size Me (2004) " [A] gripping, often funny, unfailingly gut-wrenching burp of a documentary about America's fast-food industry and one man's (his) greasy descent into its cholesterol-clogged bowels." — Globe and Mail
Posted May 7, 2004
3.5/4 92% Skyfall (2012) " Suffice to say, Skyfall is one of the best Bonds in the 50-year history of moviedom's most successful franchise." — Globe and Mail
Posted Oct 29, 2012
3.5/4 94% My Winnipeg (2007) " Holding its hallucinatory blend of archival footage, animation and skewed recreations of scenes from Maddin's childhood together is the director's inspired, entertaining narration." — Globe and Mail
Posted Sep 8, 2007
3.5/4 75% Catch a Fire (2006) " This one's a nail-biter, a fast-paced, compulsively watchable political thriller." — Globe and Mail
Posted Sep 23, 2006
3.5/4 91% The Weather Underground (2002) " Directors Sam Green and Bill Siegel expertly limn the forces that gave rise to Weatherman and clearly sympathize with the group's motivations. At the same time, they don't stint on Weatherman's follies." — Globe and Mail
Posted Oct 24, 2003
4/4 97% A Prophet (Un prophete) (2010) " Tremendously watchable cinema." — Globe and Mail
Posted Mar 5, 2010
4/4 94% Les Plages d'Agnès (The Beaches of Agnes) (2008) " This is a lovely, quirky and not a little poignant film from Agnès Varda, at 81 the still spry grande dame of the Nouvelle Vague that revolutionized French and world cinema in the late 1950s and early 60s." — Globe and Mail
Posted Jul 24, 2009
4/4 92% Katyn (2009) " Katyn is remarkably concise and (if one may say this about a cinematic commemoration of mass murder) elegant." — Globe and Mail
Posted Jul 17, 2009
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